City of a Million Dreams : A History of New Orleans at Year 300 /

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In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berry, Jason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In the hum of a b-flat city
  • Bienville: journey into the interior
  • St. Malô in the memory rings
  • The great fire and procession for Carlos III
  • City of migrants
  • Claiborne: a city embattled
  • Pirates, black soldiers, and the war under Jackson
  • The builder and the priest
  • The burial master: times of yellow fever and war
  • The time of jazz
  • Sicilians in the meld
  • Mother Catherine and the lower Ninth Ward
  • Sister Gertrude Morgan: running for the city
  • The last days of Danny Barker
  • Dr. Michael White and the widow's wail
  • After the flood.

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